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Oh, geeze, no, I hadn't! My apologies!

With some exceptions around online play for the pandemic, I'm usually the GM, and don't get to play much at all. I grab occasions for one-shots as I can. I've recently started an "RPG of the month" series to run one-shots of some of them.

I feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of games they are willing to play or run is very narrow. Saying that they don't run games in a style they don't care for is a narrow statement. Me? I'm well on...

Ultimately, once the idea came up, it is probably equally both.

I'm similar. I run the games that please my players. There's a ton of stuff out there I'm interested in playing that my usual players aren't.

This one looks a lot like there was a Hollywood party one night, and Dinklage said, "Hey, folks, this looks like it could be a blast! Just letting loose where nobody will give a damn! Who is with me!?!"

Any and every social event can be a good release/break from 'everything else'. Anything from going out for drinks on Friday, to having a BBQ, to game nights and gaming sessions - if it is sufficiently friendly and engaging, you're set to help people's quality of life.

I think the big places to put fanfiction these days are "An Archive of Our Own" (aka AO3) and "FanFiction.net" (aka FFN). I would not suggest mixing reference to your own works for sale, and fanfic that you cannot sell, because you don't own the rights.

You were responding to Howrath, not mellowred. My apologies if I didn't get what you were speaking about quite right.

The same could be said for every production of Shakespeare, so I'm not sure it is a particularly powerful argument. Isn't that the best kind of property to give a new treatment to? People complain when you touch a beloved property. Nobody's childhood deeply depends on the original Toxic...

Mm, no. It is handing out a specific ability to take an hour (or longer, if you are using alternative rest rules) to grant temporary hit points to those with proficiency in blacksmithing (or other applicable) tools. If someone asked for that as a spell, what level would it be? With an entire...

Well, there's also... DIE A group of players are drawn into the fantasy world of their game... and the result is deep and lasting trauma! https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/die

I've seen several games do away with separate attack and damage rolls. Most of them use armor as a form of damage reduction on every hit, rather than as temporary hit points. From a simulation standpoint, I can see an argument for temporary hit points - basically, the wearer takes n damage...

But, you can help making it into a personal jab. You just chose not to. And that's on you. If folks are no longer interested in being kind and respectful, I recommend they leave the discussion.

Licensing work for various uses is pretty standard stuff. Published authors have agents who handle these things all the time, for example - there is nothing conceptually new here. The only new thing is the scale. But we are talking about the biggest tech companies on the planet - I'm pretty...

As an actual example: many years ago, back before the term "generative AI" was coined, I personally did potential physics doctoral thesis research on using the technology to simulate the data that comes out of particle accelerators, to help design and tune their detectors and data processing...

Building it ethically is easy. License the content if you don't own it. Pay your darned royalties, and the basic ethical consideration goes away.

I didn't say it was likely, just that would end the argument. Like, if you stand up in a room with several Spanish chefs in it, and say, "I understand Spanish cuisine. But I don't like paella, because of all the cheese in it," you're going to get chefs telling you there usually isn't chees in...

Oh, really? Looking at the above, it seems to me that the issue goes away either: 1) If folks claim understanding, they back it up by describing adequately, or 2) Stop claiming understanding, but giving inaccurate assertions.

Incorrect. It will also stop if/when people choose to stop.